Kitchen saw mates with watermellon + Full-size tools soldered from pennies
Why shouldn’t art be funny? If you like this still photo of In Natura (Coitus Bizzarus) by Krištof Kintera, see the odd coupling caught on video.
Kintera’s a real do-it-yourselfer’s artist; he builds sculptures out of appliances, bicycles, electricity-producing potatoes, and other stuff found out in the land of instructables and science projects. He’s also the kind of artist who doesn’t like to explain his work outright and give away the punchline. Scroll through Kintera’s website, and the jokes pile up like the sacks of cement he used to build a 23-foot leaning tower.
While Kintera would rather make a dirty joke with the master’s tools than try to tear the master’s house down, jeweler and sculptor Stacey Lee Miller, tears down the tools themselves and rebuilds them out of pennies:
It takes a lot of concentration and patience to cut all those coins and solder them together, which is part of the point — Webber’s tool pieces are a heartfelt homage to work, so investing hours in their creation makes conceptual cents. (Whoooooie. Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
Here’s a closeup. Look at the detail!
But her work isn’t all serious, either. On Webber’s website there are images of altered quarters and nickles with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson sporting crowns. And Webber’s working on some screwball projects. Literally.
Click these links for stories I have out now on Webber and Kintera in volume 15 of Make magazine.
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